"Many of my so-called landscapes are very abstract because they are very free-form; I am involved with the spiritual feeling of space. Just to work with figures would be very limiting because that... Read full biography
"Many of my so-called landscapes are very abstract because they are very free-form; I am involved with the spiritual feeling of space. Just to work with figures would be very limiting because that would identify a particular place or situation. The paintings look like landscapes but that is not... Read full biography
"Many of my so-called landscapes are very abstract because they are very free-form; I am involved with the spiritual feeling of space. Just to work with figures would be very limiting because that would identify a particular place or situation. The paintings look like landscapes but that is not necessarily my preoccupation in painting.". In trying to understand the source of Richard Mayhew's artistic gift, we acknowledge several Sources include: a grandmother who instilled in him a reverence... Read full biography
"Many of my so-called landscapes are very abstract because they are very free-form; I am involved with the spiritual feeling of space. Just to work with figures would be very limiting because that would identify a particular place or situation. The paintings look like landscapes but that is not necessarily my preoccupation in painting.". In trying to understand the source of Richard Mayhew's artistic gift, we acknowledge several Sources include: a grandmother who instilled in him a reverence for land and sea and the sense that he had unlimited potential; his pride in his African-American and Long Island Shinnecock Indian heritage; the fact that his ancestors were involved in the Underground Railroad; an involvement with the Spiral Group,... Read full biography
"Many of my so-called landscapes are very abstract because they are very free-form; I am involved with the spiritual feeling of space. Just to work with figures would be very limiting because that would identify a particular place or situation. The paintings look like landscapes but that is not necessarily my preoccupation in painting.". In trying to understand the source of Richard Mayhew's artistic gift, we acknowledge several Sources include: a grandmother who instilled in him a reverence for land and sea and the sense that he had unlimited potential; his pride in his African-American and Long Island Shinnecock Indian heritage; the fact that his ancestors were involved in the Underground Railroad; an involvement with the Spiral Group, organized by fellow socially conscious Black artists trying to make advances during the civil rights movement; his love of music, jazz in pa... Read full biography
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About Richard Mayhew: Books
Books & Publications (24)
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100 New York Painters
2006
Dantzic, Cynthia Maris
224 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
0 pages
Collecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas
1998
Taha, Halima
270 pages (color)
Community of Creativity A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Storr, Robert/Tom Wolf
103 pages (color)
A History-African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present
1993
Bearden, Romare/Harry Henderson
542 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
African American Artists 1880-1987 Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection
1989
McElroy, Guy C (others)
125 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Mecklenburg, Virginia
148 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
Art: African American
1978
Lewis, Samella
246 pages (color)
Two Centuries of Black American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Driskell, David C
221 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory
1973
Cederholm, Theresa Dickason
348 pages
The Afro-American Artist A Search for Identity
1973
Fine, Elsa Honig
310 pages (color)
Afro-American Artists New York and Boston (Exhibition catalog)
1970
National Cent/Afro-Am Artists
80 pages
A Decade of American Drawings 8th Exhibition Sponsored by Friends (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Whitney Museum
52 pages
Forty Artists under Forty From the Whitney Museum of American Art (Exhibition catalog)